5.14.2 Application Utilities Page

Use the Application Utilities page to access the Application Dashboard, Advisor, Upgrade Application, Recently Updated Pages, Attribute Dictionary, Change History, Debug Messages, Application Express Views, Export Repository, Manage Backups, and the Embedded Code Utility.

The following table describes the links on the application Utilities page.

Link Description To Learn More

Application Dashboard

View a summary of application components and attributes

See: Viewing the Application Dashboard

Advisor

Performs various checks on your application, including checks for programming errors, security issues, quality assurance, and other best practice

See: Running Advisor to Check Application Integrity

Upgrade Application

Upgrade the current application to a new release. Review components eligible for upgrading to include the latest features.

See: Upgrading Application Express Applications

Recently Updated Pages

View a history of page updates made to this application.

See Viewing the Recently Updated Pages Report

Attribute Dictionary

Manage item and column user interface defaults for a selected page.

See: Using the Attribute Dictionary

Change History

View a report of component updates made in this application.

See: Viewing the Change History Report

Debug Messages

Review debug messages generated by this application.

See: Debugging an Application

Application Express Views

Query various views against Application Express metadata.

See: Accessing Application Express Views

Export Repository

Manage Export Files in the Export Repository.

See: Installing Export Files

Manage Backups

View and manage application backups in the current workspace. Backups provide a simple way to recover applications that may have been unexpectedly modified or deleted.

See: Managing Application Backups

Embedded Code

View all embedded code (such as SQL, PL/SQL and JavaScript) from all pages in an Application Express application presented in easy-to-use faceted search page.

See: Using the Embedded Code Utility

Page Specific Utilities

Page Specific Utilities display in a region on the right-side of the Utilities page.

Use the links in the Page Specific Utilitiesregion to access Cross Page Utilities and Page Groups as well as access handy utilities for managing regions, buttons, items, computations, validations, process, dynamic actions, and branches.

See:

Interactive Report Utilities

Interactive Report Utilities display in a region on the lower right-side of the Utilities page..

Click Saved Reports to delete saved interactive reports in the current application. Click Subscriptions to manage interactive report subscriptions.

See: Using Interactive Report Utilities

Application Checksum

View the application checksum to determine if the same application is deployed in different workspaces.

See Viewing the Application Checksum
Font APEX Icons Search Font APEX icons and HTML markup. See Accessing Font APEX

Page Checksum

View the page checksum to compare two application deployments and determine which pages are the same and which are different.

See Viewing the Page Checksum